He also helped found the Irwin & Agnew Iron Foundry in 1846.

He also inspired a fashion craze when one entrepreneur introduced Spiro Agnew watches ( a take off on the popular Mickey Mouse watch ); conservatives wore them to show their support for Agnew, while many liberals wore them to signify their contempt.

By some accounts, the notoriously thin-skinned President was also resentful that the self-confident Agnew was so popular with many Americans.

During the battle, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Andrew Agnew of Lochnaw warned his Regiment The Royal Scots Fusiliers not to fire until they could “ see the whites of their e ’ en .” A noted wit, Sir Andrew is also quoted as addressing his regiment thus: " Lads, you see they loons ( young men ) on yon ' hill.

Williams then restarted Christian Death in the summer of 1981 with McGearty and Belanger, who also brought in guitarist Rikk Agnew, who had previously been with The Adolescents.

Williams also occasionally took part in Christian Death reunions during the late 1980s and early 1990s with Rikk Agnew, the guitarist on the band's first album.

It can also be used metaphorically for people who have a grandiose sense of their own importance, as in the famous dismissal of the news media as " nattering nabobs of negativism " in a speech that was delivered by Spiro Agnew and written by William Safire.

Agnew was also the subject of a The Elusive David Agnew mockumentary directed by " Allen Smithee " on the DVD release of The Invasion of Time.

The program was also criticized by Vice President Spiro Agnew and Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird.

Morton also delivered the speech nominating Spiro Agnew, then-Governor of Maryland, as the vice presidential candidate.

He had also been considered for Nixon's vice presidential running mate, but lost out to Agnew.

Sources within the administration of Vice President Spiro Agnew, who was formerly governor of Maryland, were also commenting Morton would make a strong candidate and would likely run.

He was also considered for a spot on the Republican ticket in 1964 and as a possible replacement for Spiro Agnew, when he resigned as Vice President of the United States in 1973.

Valerie Agnew also became the primary instigator and co-founder of the anti-violence and self-defence organisation Home Alive.

Royer formed the group after he and former Social Distortion original member Rikk Agnew ( also formerly of Christian Death ), left the original Mike Ness crew.

He was also a member of a previous commission to chart the border of Ladakh under R. A. Vans Agnew.

The multimedia company Sanctuary Woods also released a MS-DOS Point-and-click Adventure game based on the film, on CD-ROM and floppy disk for IBM computers ; Beth Agnew served as its adapter.

A photograph in Stars and Stripes loosely inspired the exploits of PFC Jack Agnew in the 1965 novel and the 1967 film, The Dirty Dozen.

The World War II figure Jack Agnew ( 1922 – 2010 ), an inspiration for the novel and film, The Dirty Dozen, spent his last year at a retirement community in Hatboro.

* Jack Agnew ( 1922-2010 ), inspiration for the novel and film The Dirty Dozen

It is adapted from the novel The Red House by George Agnew Chamberlain, published in 1943 by Popular Library.

In April 1973, when revelations about Watergate began to surface, Agnew was the choice of 35 percent of Republican voters to be the next Republican nominee for President, while then-California Governor Ronald Reagan was second on the Gallup Poll.

Amos is an enthusiast of cricket and talked about her love of the game with Jonathan Agnew on Test Match Special during the lunch break of the first day of the England v New Zealand test at Old Trafford in May 2008.

A more recent example of double entendres was when Agnew was commentating about England batsman Kevin Pietersen replacing a bat rubber talking about the process of rolling it down the handle, and leaving Vaughan having to deadpan admit he was no good at putting a rubber on, before eventually collapsing in a fit of giggles.

There are four hydroelectric dams on the river: one, known as Big Eddy, above High Falls forming Lake Agnew ; High Falls dam about a kilometer below Big Eddy dam ; Nairn Falls dam about 12 km below High Falls and the other at the Domtar mill in Espanola.

They include: " In Florida ", about the 2000 election ; " Without DeLay ", a song about the former congressman ; " Bobbitt ", about John and Lorena Bobbitt ; " Little Bitty Gun ", which lampoons Nancy Reagan ; " I'm Changing My Name to Chrysler ", about the federal loan guarantee to Chrysler in 1979 ( which was rewritten in 2008 as " I Am Changing My Name to Fannie Mae " about the 700 billion dollar " bailout of the U. S. financial system "); " The Ballad of Spiro Agnew ", and " Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation " ( which became " George W. Told the Nation " in 2007 ).

image: Spiro Agnew Congratulates Launch Control After Launch of Apollo 17-GPN-2002-000058. jpg | Vice President Spiro Agnew congratulates launch control after the launch

Vice President Spiro Agnew urged Capp to run in the Democratic Party Massachusetts primary in 1970 against Ted Kennedy, but Capp ultimately declined.

* During the war between the United States and North Vietnam, Vice President Spiro Agnew accused newspapers of anti-American bias, and in a famous speech delivered in San Diego in 1970, called anti-war protesters " the nattering nabobs of negativism.

* 1918 – Spiro Agnew, 39th Vice President of the United States ( d. 1996 )

* 1973 – Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with federal income tax evasion.

Gerald Ford was the first Vice President selected by this method, after the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew in 1973 ; after succeeding to the Presidency, Ford nominated Nelson Rockefeller as Vice President.

Richard Nixon ( 36th ), Everett Dirksen, Spiro Agnew incoming Vice President ( 39th ), and the outgoing Vice President Hubert Humphrey ( 38th ), January 20, 1969

No Vice President has ever been impeached, least of all convicted ; in 1973, Spiro Agnew came the closest.

The first such instance occurred in 1973 following the resignation of Spiro Agnew as Richard Nixon's Vice President.

* November 9 – Spiro Agnew, American Vice President ( d. 1996 )

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew denounces the President's critics as ' an effete corps of impudent snobs ' and ' nattering nabobs of negativism '.

* September 17 – Spiro Agnew, American politician, 39th Vice President of the United States ( b. 1918 )

* August 5 – August 8 – The Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida nominates Richard Nixon for U. S. President and Spiro Agnew for Vice President.

Indeed, for Vice President Agnew it has become a code-word describing the activities of muggers, arsonists, draft evaders, campaign hecklers, campus militants, anti-war demonstrators, juvenile delinquents and political assassins.

In 1969 President Richard Nixon formed the Space Task Group, chaired by Vice President Spiro T. Agnew.

Spiro Theodore Agnew (; November 9, 1918September 17, 1996 ) was the 39th Vice President of the United States ( 1969 – 1973 ), serving under President Richard Nixon, and the 55th Governor of Maryland ( 1967 – 1969 ).

During his fifth year as Vice President, in the late summer of 1973, Agnew was under investigation by the United States Attorney's office in Baltimore, Maryland, on charges of extortion, tax fraud, bribery and conspiracy.

On October 10, 1973, Agnew was allowed to plead no contest to a single charge that he had failed to report $ 29, 500 of income received in 1967, with the condition that he resign the office of Vice President.

Agnew is the only Vice President in United States history to resign because of criminal charges.

During the ensuing general election campaign against Vice President Hubert Humphrey — which took place against a backdrop of urban riots and anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, culminating in the violent confrontations at the Democratic convention in Chicago — Agnew repeatedly hammered the Democrats on the issue of " law and order ".

Although considered something of a political joke at first — one Democratic television commercial featured hearty laughter as the camera panned to a TV with the words " Vice President Spiro Agnew?